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Welcome to Before breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is that if you are managing a lot of people,

or for that matter, raising multiple kids.

Be sure to check in with and think about the easy ones.

Just because things are going fine doesn't mean they couldn't go better.

So I have five kids and at any given point one or two of them can be way more challenging than the others.

Now it varies who the challenging kid or situation might be.

But any particular crisis can consume a ton of energy.

So if everything seems to be going all right for another kid, good grades, no real complaints, it can be tempting to just feel grateful.

I can let that chunk of parenting go on autopilot.

But just because someone is doing okay

Doesn't mean they don't benefit from engagement with someone who is looking out for their interests.

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